This is red text specified in a font tag

This is green text, specified in an inline style

Here the style on the outside is saying green and the font tag on the inside is saying red

Here the style is the inside is saying green and the font tag on the outside is saying red

Thus in a nested specification involving a conflict between HTML and an inline CSS style, the innermost specification appears to take precedence

Revised: October 11, 2005. Comments to William Pegram, wpegram@nvcc.edu